One Month

So idk if anybody noticed but I hit my one month mark on sat!! oh yeah!! haha so i have been out in Idaho almost a week and i cant believe all that has happened already! so i will start from the beginning...

Bekka with President & Sister Brinkerhoff



So when we flew to Idaho (30min flight...so dumb) we land and meet our mission pres and his wife and then the whole day was just getting to know them and lessons about the mission and things like that. Did do a whole lot... didn't even  leave the mission home. But the next day that where it all started. We went to meet our companions at transfers and that's where i met Sis Keith.She is From Peoria AZ and she is great! That fist night i had my first shift at the VC! Sis Keith most deff pushes me and that good but scary! The only way im gonna learn fast is if i get shoved out of my comfort zone. The next day we had no VC  but we had weekly planning and that took forever and a day! but that night i had my first real teaching experience. It went really well! sis keith was surprised with how much i was willing to talk just being fresh out of the MTC and she was happy! So since then we have worked every night at the vc and dont have a lot of time during the day to tract cuz we have alot of study time with me being a new missionary but we have had a few referrals we went to see and that went pretty good! the house was Disgusting  though! We didnt even sit down cuz it was that bad.... but we couldnt stay long cuz we had to run to the VC. So the VC.... let me tell you... not as easy as you or i thought! So many fact and History i have to remember and then all the movies i have to watch and know about so i can explain them. and then learning about the temple facts so i can give tour walk around the temple! and doing the online chat and calling referrals and oh my gosh! Its like taking what a missionary does and then adding onto it SO much! The Mission expects us to have just as much success as reg missionaries do with less then half the time. Its super over whelming and i have had quite a few moments of not knowing if i could do this the way thats needed. But Sis Keith is a great help and very supportive and lets me know that its all gonna be ok and that after a few weeks i will really get the hang of all this stuff. I have broken down a few times but thats also just who i am haha. i was having a really hard night like two nights ago and i was writing in my journal about how i was wondering if i would ever be a good enough missionary to even be a senior comp let alone a trainer cuz i feel lost like ALL the time and blah blah blah. Sis keith really helped telling me not to worry about it now cuz i have only been out 5 days and that it will get easier and that she has no doubt i will be all of those things... I just want to be the best i can be you know? One thing im really having a hard time with right now is having faith in the lord. I just need to let myself go but im having a hard time cuz i dont like asking for help or feeling weak. Its something that i realize i need to work and im trying to practice what i teach. You cant convert past your own conversion. So true...  I can feel my own testimony growing everyday while being out here... thats part of what a mission is for though i think.

So can i just say that Idaho is cold!!! At night here im already freezing! everyone just laughs at me and they keep reminding me of how im gonna die when the winter comes. i am fully aware of that fact! lol Im not looking forward to the winter at all!  So Idaho also makes me feel really country! lol our area is pretty much all farm area so its a good thing we have a car! oh and its the newest car in the mission! we also have the nicest house in the mission too! and im still loosing weight! life is pretty nice out here mission wise haha but i dont want to jinx myself so im gonna stop. but hey i g2g but i will try and give more details next time i write! I love you all and keep the mail coming! my new address is

1015 Rose ave
Idaho Falls, ID 83402

But if you send it to the mission home they will forward it the next day and i will try and send pics soon

Love Sister Lemons

I leave Tuesday

Ok so today is friday and we got anohter pday because VC sisters are awesome! lol so let me tell you a little about my week (or past few days) I had a really good day on tues! we went up to temple square and got a little tour just to see and feel what its like to get them so we can know how to give them. than later that night we went in for our first course on online chatting with ppl on mormon.org. Its there we found out that VC sister actually have 3 areas we have to cover. so we have the visitor center, our proceliding(sp) area, and the online chat where ppl go to ask questions about the church and we cover all three everyday!  And just so you know the online area just bacame the higest baptising mission beating out SLC like 5 weeks ago so im gonna be apart if that! The lord must have alot of trust in me to trust me with 3 areas all at one time so no pressure! I also found out how they call sisters to go to the vc and its pretty amazing! So i thought they just called us like everyone else but what they do is while htey are going throught he pile of missionaries and are giving callings they pull out and make a seperate pile of the sisters that they feel they can see our testimony and countinance just by looking at our pic. then after they have finished giving the rest of the  ppl callings they pull out the vc pile and a list of all the vc and then assign them to a vc.... idk that and it makes me feel really good to kow that. there was a quote a presidency said that with vc sisters that you can just see their tistimony by looking at them(but im not saying htat the other sisters dont have amazingingly strong testimonys as well) and thats why they go to vc because at a vc you dont have a lot of time to teach and vc sisters dont have to say a whole lot to make a big impact. i hope i can make that statement true.  I also found out that we are the only ones with the autority to teach at the temples and vc. There was a story told where pres Holland went to a vc and asked for a tour and the sister was so nervous to do that cuz it was a freakin general authority (i would be pooping my pants) and so she asked him if he wanted to give the tour cuz he knew som much more than she did. he then pulled her aside and asked her "What  authority to i have to teach here?" CRAZY!!!! I have been givin this power and authority to teach ppl at a vc! lets just say i was super pumped to go start serving after that day!

 so as at least mom and dad know i have another eye infection! i woke up yesterday with blood shot red eyes! i didnt want to go to the doctor but i knew that i needed to pray so i went into the prayer wanting to pray it away (that didnt work) so then my next prayer was to ask if i needed to go to the doctor and i was gonna say something like "if they are not better by like noon then i will go" but then i got like 2 words in to asking and i just started to cry knowing that i needed to go then. and good thing i did cuz the doctor said that if i hadnt i could have started growing cysts or something on my cornea! but we got it early and i just have some eye drops i have to use for like a week. So i spent like most of yesterday in a doctors office and going to the eye doctor off campus and then going and getting my perscription filled but thats ok cuz it needed to be done.

Pretty soon i will be out in the mission field and i cant wait. Im a little sad to say goodbye to all the friends i have made here but i know that we will all meet again at some point =) Soon people will have to start writing me real letters and not dear elder so everyone better use it while they can (mom can you text amy and tell her to write me back!) again i love getting mail so please write me i need it! So i love you all and i cant wait to read everyones letters cuz i know you will all write me soon =) ok so mom and dad i my flight is tuesday at 11 so i will be calling at the airportprobably sometime between you 8 and 10 can you please dear elder me dads call phone number. i cant wait to talk to you both so be ready! and answer you phones!!!

i love you

Sister Lemons

Week three and still weird

ok i hope one time we can atleast get to chat via email!  So yes i can call from the airport! i will try and call both so dad can you send mt cell number? it will be the morning of the 21 so KEEP YOUR PHONES ON YOU AT ALL TIMES!!!! I cant wait to talk you!

So this has been and emotional week! it was the last week with our elders they left this morning =( the 4 of us sisters woke up at 430 to see them off and give them their card we had written for them cuz we lost them last night and wernt able to say goodbye so we did it this morning! so im super dead right now! So now its just us sisters left and its really weird... the 4 of us in class alone... i dont like it but im super excited for the elders to start their missions!

So there is an elder here that was the 14 year old Joseph Smith in the movie they play at the temple! He is super weird and awkward though! haha but hey someone kinda famous right? he is no david archuleta but he will do haha!

 So a few days ago we had a sub teacher and she came in and started teaching and something crazy/amaznig/idk how to explani it happened. This sub had of way of making it all seem so real and close and through out the lesson we started to become really quite and she noticed and asked what was going on... after a while of silence on of the elders said "we are scared" and that just opened the gate! We pretty much all agreed and became emotional and she then had us read a chapter in alma together (i cant remember which chapter and i dont have my scriptures with me) and it really helped... she then instead of had us do pretend invesigators had us teach eachother as missionaries and it was great! it really helped us be nervous but ready to go! I have one more week here and im starting to freak out a little but im super ready to start this mission! I stll hate snow but i will make the best of my mission and will do my best there is no doubt about that! I also cant wait to get out cuz as i said in my last email i hate when elders are my age and cute! there are 2 here that have made it known they think im attractive (and i them) and i dont mind writing them but i need to get out so i can focus! haha im here on the lords errand.

So can i just say i only got mail once this week! ONCE!!! um so ppl (mom dad family) please start writing me! i dont have alot of time to respond to emails (but i have found a way to read them with out the time running out) so i would much rather have a letter be it dearelder or hand written. So yeah please write me letters from people help keep me sane and i dont want to go crazy! i will be leaving the 21 like i said so if you send it here after or it dosent make it to me before i leave it will be forwarded to me in idaho but my mission home address should be on fb if not ask my parents for it and send my letters there =) The missionaries here at the MTC already think im (and this is thier words not mine) sassy! haha but they love it cuz i say little comments that most ppl wouldnt say or think to say and they just laugh =) (that was random)

So i wont be abel to email pics untill im in the mission field cuz there is no memory chip insert place thing on these computers but i will do that asap when i get out. buti have got some GREAT pics! lol So this week we have VC training and we will be going to Temple square on wed morning and sat afternoon... im not suppose to do this but if anyone would like to come see me come come!! i wont be able to stop and talk long but i could say hi if we ran in to eachother! but this week is gonn abe crazy! its a good thing i already know how to "paint the barn" =)

Ok well im about out of time and i still need to send one more email to an elder real fast so everyone just know i love you!! please write me!!!!!!

love Sister Lemons!

2nd week and still loving it

Family!

ok so here is the real email again. i just got back from the temple and we did a session and it was really good, i havent done one in  a while so it was  really nice to do it with my distict. speaking of district this is the last week for our elders they leave next monday and us sisters are pretty sad about it =( but its ok we know  we will all see each other again (we have all gotten really close). but us sisters stay another week for VC training! woohoo! we heard that they are gonna give us a lesson on looking presentable and making sure our makeup is done well haha... they call it painting the barn! lol saying that you dont have to paint a barn but it look SOOOO much better when it is painted! lol i still dont know what to think about that? and why do they not give that lesson  to ALL the sisters?

    So this week has beena crazy one! we have a elder really struggling and is not here for the right reasons. we are all prying for him and want to help but we dont know whatelse to do. he has met with the branch presidency but nothing really seems to help but he says he wont go home unless they send him home. he does nothing but drive the pririt away and its frustrating you know?

     so yesterday we got to watch a movie! lol it was the legacy but still! lol we loved it! lol its was funny cuz when they turned out the lights we all were like making fun of the sittuation. but yesterday was fastsunday and we starved for 24 hours! dinner was at 5 and around 2 we were all dead! lol all we could think about was food and not the reason we were fasting. when it came time to eal the elders had like 5 plates of food each! lol so funny to watch1 and then we were all in a food coma after.

    Can i say i dont like it when elders are my age cuz then i start to look at how attractive they are! lol when i know they are 19 im fine cuz i just look at them as little boys but i have meet alot of elders that are around my age or older and it doesnt help that they are super attractive and POLY! i was dying! but i have my goal in sight and wont let any cute man slow me down just eye candy you know? lol

       So can you send me more pics please? everyone here has tons of pics of there fams and stuff and i want more. lol and maybe the pic book we got for christmas at some point? What pic did you end up using in my mission thing for the church? can you send me some of those pics too? Thanks for sending my shoes so fast! i love you guys for doing that! i got them on tues and used them to work out and the next morining we has service and i was glad i didnt have to do that in my mission shoes (my feet are doing better by the way. ankle still has issues some times though) So are my emails and letters as funny as Britts? lol im trying to be funny through letters and email and i dont know if im acomplishing my goal. =)

     So let me tell you about a great experience i had this week. My comp and i were having a really hard time with an investigator and were totally at a lose of what to do. we were praying and studying so hard to know hwat to do and nothing was coming so we were so frustrated and i guess it showed cuz our teacher had us stay after class to ask what was wrong and i we broke down to him and how were not sure if we are gonna be good missionaries cuz we were trying SOOO hard but nothing was coming and he shoed us this scripture moses 6:31-32. as i sat there and read that out loud for all three of us to hear i could feel the saviors love for us and we were all crying even the teacher. he told us that god knows how hard we are trying and that we are doing the best he can and is so proud of us and he will make up the rest. this is now one of the scriptures i read everyday to help remind me that im not doing this alone and he will make up for what we cant do just aslong as we give it our all.

    I love you guys and all that you do for me. i miss you so much but not enough to let it disstract me. i know you will be there when i get home. Im all out of time but i will send you a letter while doing my laundry! i keep you in my prayers always

Sister Bekka Lemons